Journal continued from U - May 31st 1861 -
J A wall of Locusts in blossom a and today the best of the season
for honey - two or three more such days and the old stocks have their supply -
From two experiments believe that old stocks deprived of their queen - then given a sealed
queen will accept of recently hatched Young Queen - Find no difficulty in giving
Young Italian Queens to nuclei with sealed queens - Made a stock by giving 3/4 [illegible] Italian Queen -
empty comb - and drummed out bees - Most of the bees went up but queen did
not - she had been drummed up once and returned - Found a very small Italian Queen in
a fair queen cell - a very beautiful one in the very [illegible] cell - quite [illegible] and well
colored - (June 1st) Went to Prof. F. G. Cary's - day hot - beautiful rain last night
made a swarm for him and Dr. Smith (2nd) Sabbath - very hot - showers -
 (3rd) Very hot - showers - made a swarm for Mr. Hunter - also one for Mr. Hay
returned to Oxford - Am amazed at the power of work done by bees - never saw
the like before - My nuclei have nearly every cell filled and combs are
being sealed! Old stocks are very heavy - Locusts still in super abundance -
On Saturday saw bees on Coffee Tree and Honey Locust - Took out [inserted: some of] the full combs
from nuclei and gave them empty comb - could not otherwise see when Italian Queens are
fertile - Not a day now should be lost in forming swarms - Nuclei receiving
empty comb buzzed almost as much as bees without a queen when they get one
or mean to rear one! Received a nucleus from [illegible] - on June 1st - was away - it was
not put in cellar - as I directed - bees heated - some dead - had from comb full of eggs
when sent - larvae only in two - and only a few in there - cut the comb the best I could
to get queens - making 5 nuclei - shut up some - as they got too much honey - (4th) Rain
all night - gentle - cleared up very warm - bees get much still from Locust
 (5th) Rain (thunder) yesterday P. M. - cloudy this A. M. - cleared up warm at noon - bees very 
busy on Locust - heavy thunder shower in P. M. - hail a little here - Made a swarm
at Mr. Cary's - bees there have gained much - Have made the most I can of Coleraine
brood - Drones of No. 3 much better than the two others - (6th) 55 degrees 82 degrees - very foggy in
A. M. - very heavy shower in P. M. - Excessive wet diminishes yield of honey - Made another
swarm at Mr. Cary's - brought it away - Saw queen on comb in swarm made yesterday P. M. 
eggs in worker cells - none in some drone cells - Put [inserted: 2 in A. M. ] some larvae in empty incipient Queen
cells - gave to [crossed out: illegible] [inseted: nucleus] raising one queen (had only one larva) in P. M. - found the one queen
cell empty - royal jelly in one and larva still in [illegible] - saw a cell bees tried to
rear queen in - too far gone - (larvae being sealed around it) looks as though it would be a fertile
worker - larva capped in its cell - (7) very hot - bees at Dr. Hill's swarmed - lit high -
got about 1/2 in hive - shook limb - a number of times - at last all on tree rose
and flew away - soon others left for old hive � Made two good swarms